Las Vegas carnage and overlooking the obvious.

[Pogo]

In order to state the obvious we must first be able to see the obvious. This is a difficult task because the obvious is very good at hiding in plain sight. It exists not in a camouflaged way but in a normalized way. In the United States a lot of people have become very rich by riding the excitement of violence and presenting it to the viewing public as entertainment.


The entertainment industry, particularly Hollywood and network television, long ago sacrificed originality and creativity for the time-tested formula of delivering bullets into human flesh. It’s a blueprint that became the gift that keeps on giving for movie makers and actors but its success has a dark side.


On Oct. 2nd a man named Stephen Paddock acted out in reality what he had been conditioned over a lifetime to be acceptable entertainment fantasy. Paddock like the rest of us had been subjected to a constant barrage of human carnage on both the big and little screen so producers, directors, actors and sponsors could sell tickets or advertised products.


Car chases, gunfights and human bloodshed never seems to get old and actual, thoughtful productions of public entertainment are few and far between because the profits just aren’t there. And we shouldn’t fall prey to the redeeming social value argument that predictably displays good winning over evil. The crowds are drawn to witness the action not the lessons of the aftermath.


There’s been a lot bandied about in recent years regarding the indoctrination of populations in Muslim countries to attack others in western civilizations. But they don’t hold a candle to American movie makers and television producers. One system prays to a religious god while the other bows to the god of the almighty dollar.


It doesn’t stop there. Media organizations like Fox News and CNN will cash in on this big time. The endless procession of talking heads will sell a lot of toothpaste and spaghetti sauce. Theories will abound and the experts will strut their hour upon the stage. Of course the obvious will be totally overlooked as usual because no one can see it.


The obvious cannot be seen because no one wants to see it. If we want to understand why our society is falling apart then we need to stop looking at someone else’s house for a culprit. We need to take a long, hard look at ourselves.

Laws and Judicial Degrees Made by the "A Punk Is a Hunk" Ciique

Most movie and TV violence shows good guys killing bad guys, or at least shows the subhuman criminals winding up dead. Those who oppose such "violence" want to protect the bad guys.

And the point of showing "good guys killing bad guys" is the message "shooting at people is the solution". Regardless who shoots who.

And that's bullshit.

Actually your typical movie/TV violence isn't sending that message to promote guns. It's using the visual of guns to mine your emotions, so that you'll stay tuned long enough for the bad guy to get shot, so that it can in the interim sell you Viagra or a monster truck or the amazing new Vegematic from Ronco. That's as deep (read: shallow) as it goes. They don't give a flying fuck what the psychological influence on the masses is, as long as it gets them more money from Viagra, the monster truck or the amazing new Vegematic from Ronco.

 

[Pogo]

Today is a good day to clean my weapons. Might need to defend myself again someday from some whacked out leftist

-Geaux

May I suggest the trolley tracks in Wisconsin. I hear there's a Democratic convention there.

 

[Geaux4it]

Yesterdays Klan is todays liberal leftist who like to kill people

-Geaux

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

So what, The GOP/DOPers are planning on passing a New Gun Nutter Moron rights' law soon.
So it will be legal to have GUN Silencers. So to protect the shooters hearing.
Not to protect their victims btw.

So..GOP/DOPers,! Now would be the right time to bring that bill up for a vote.
Gun Nutters need to save their hearing when they shoot deer.

Most Left Wingers are dumb knuttjobs. Silencers do not work on rifles, machine guns or high-power handguns.

 

[The Derp]

So it will be legal to have GUN Silencers. So to protect the shooters hearing.

The only reason anyone would want a silencer is that they want to kill people without them knowing who did it.

Silences serve no other purpose.

 

[The Derp]

Most Left Wingers are dumb knuttjobs. Silencers do not work on rifles, machine guns or high-power handguns.

What's the point of a silencer if not to kill someone unawares?

 

[OldLady]

From Fox Producer Jake Gibson: Federal Law enforcement sources tell Fox News that Stephen Paddock "was known to local authorities" in Vegas.

of fucking course

FBI is letting a lot of neener heads slip between the cracks. Wonder if he wandered into their offices and tried to give himself up, too.

 

[OldLady]

Take your ignorant calls for "gun control" right now and put em where the sun doesn't shine. Be useful: donate blood, pray.

Donate blood, pray and then fight like hell to get the guns out of this country.

 

[Pogo]

Yesterdays Klan is todays liberal leftist who like to kill people

-Geaux

It's one hell of a long ride from "the Klan" to "Liberal".
I don't think even all the trolley tracks in Wisconsin will get you that far.

 

[OffensivelyOpenMinded]

OP sounds like a fruit cup ass motherfucker

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Take your ignorant calls for "gun control" right now and put em where the sun doesn't shine. Be useful: donate blood, pray.

Donate blood, pray and then fight like hell to get the guns out of this country.

How about changing that to you can fight like hell to get out of the country? No one needs your "gun control".

 

[Pogo]

Take your ignorant calls for "gun control" right now and put em where the sun doesn't shine. Be useful: donate blood, pray.

Donate blood, pray and then fight like hell to get the guns out of this country.

I'd amend to "get the gun culture out of this country".

You can't eliminate either one altogether; that will never happen. But a societal value shift makes an event like this far more unthinkable.

How is it any of us can flip through our TV channels right now, or any time at all, and not come across somebody getting shot? That's a disease right there. And the poster just before this one looks like a poster boy for it.

 

[OffensivelyOpenMinded]

Kind of funny how they had not a word to say about the shooting over there in Antioch. I realize this is a bigger incident. But shit..

 

[basquebromance]

Las Vegas concert goer says a woman told her and group of friends, “you’re all going to die tonight,” 45 minutes before shooting.

 

[OffensivelyOpenMinded]

Las Vegas concert goer says a woman told her and group of friends, “you’re all going to die tonight,” 45 minutes before shooting.

Yep

 

[Pogo]

Las Vegas concert goer says a woman told her and group of friends, “you’re all going to die tonight,” 45 minutes before shooting.

As always --- poster has a disease where he doesn't know what a "link" is.....

Also known as "pulling it out of one's ass for the purpose of attention whoring, having no life"

 

[basquebromance]

http://nypost.com/2017/10/02/vegas-gunmans-psychopath-dad-landed-on-fbis-most-wanted-list/

 

[basquebromance]

Las Vegas concert goer says a woman told her and group of friends, “you’re all going to die tonight,” 45 minutes before shooting.

As always --- poster has a disease where he doesn't know what a "link" is.....

Also known as "pulling it out of one's ass"

the video of the interview is all over twitter. the FBI have talked to the woman, to boot. you're the one with your head up your ass. you have no clue on world events.

 

[koshergrl]

He was undoubtedly raised by social services.

Which explains a lot.

 

[Pogo]

Las Vegas concert goer says a woman told her and group of friends, “you’re all going to die tonight,” 45 minutes before shooting.

As always --- poster has a disease where he doesn't know what a "link" is.....

Also known as "pulling it out of one's ass"

the video of the interview is all over twitter. the FBI have talked to the woman, to boot. you're the one with your head up your ass. you have no clue on world events.

Then why can't you post it?

Are you just fucking stupid?

This ain't a game, Gummo. This don't happen retroactively just because you decide to post some shit on a message board.

That's what the Martians who just landed told me. They're eating a tree right now. I don't have a link though.